Collar or cuff package.



COLLAR 0R CUFF PACKAGE. APPLIOATION FILED 111111211911.

' 1,015,000. Patented Jan. 16, 1912.

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CHARLES QAIIL OF BALEIMOE MAB'YLAND.

COLLAR OR CUFF PACKAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 16,1912.

Application filed March 27, 1911. Serial No. 617,171.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES CAHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar or Cuff Packages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved display package or wrapper and has for one of its objects to provide an improved package or wrapper of a transparent character in which the article inclosed therein may be effectively sealed and protected but which may be examined without removal from the wrapper.

Another object is to provide an improved package or wrapper which will serve the double function of displaying the inclosed article and at the same time enable the article to be secured in a rolled condition without the aid of twine or equivalent securing means.

With these and other objects in view the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein,

Figure 1 shows the improved package or wrapper sealed with the article inclosed therein ready for inspection and sale. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional detail through one end of the sealed package or wrapper,the section being taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, is a perspective view of the display package or wrapper with the article therein,both being shown secured in a rolled condition ready for delivery.

In the present illustration theinvention is shown as a wrapper for a collar and has a long and comparatively narrow body portion, 1, which has a permanently-sealed flap, 2, at one end and a longitudinal lap seam, 3, along one edge,it being preferable to locate the seam along one longitudinal edge because at that place its double-thick portion will not conceal any material portion of the article within the wrapper. In order to better explain the construction, the two walls of the wrapper are designated, 4, and, 5, respectively,the former preferably being larger than the latter so as to produce an end flap, 6, at one end thereof and beyond the end of wall, 5. The wall, 5, has a flap, 7, which flap has position at the extreme end of the said wall and between the flap, 6, of wall, 4, and the end, 8, of the longitudinal seam, 3. The flap, 6,.has one edge 'surface coated with an adhesive substance,

9, while the flap, 7 has the edge of that surface that confronts wall, 4, coated with an i adhesive substance, 10. It will thus be seen,

if wall, 4, be considered the outer side of the wrapper, that the inner surface of the outer wall flap has an adhesive coating while that surface of the inner wall, 5, that lies next to the wall, 4, is also provided with an adhesive coating, and therefore the adhesive coatings are applied to confronting surfaces but out of register or line with each other.

By reference to Figs. 1 and 3 it will be seen that the flap, 7 of the shorter wall, 5, extends beyond the end of seam, 3, and that the edge, 11, is slit from the end of the flap, 7, back toward the said seam.

In operation the collar or a cuff, 12, is inserted in the open end of the wrapper between flaps, 6', and, 7 until it is inclosed between walls, 4, and, 5. The adhesive coating, 10, on the under side of flap, 7 is then moistened and pressed against the confronting inner surface of the wall, 4, whereupon the wrapper is sealed with the collar or cuff in ,a flat condition therein. The transparency however of the material of which the wrapper is formed will permit of a careful examination of the inclosed and sealed flat article without removing it or breaking open the wrapper.

When it is desired to deliver the article to a customer the wrapper with the article therein may be rolled beginning at the end flap, 2, and rolling toward the flap, 6. In making this roll the outer wall, 4, will be turned over and rolled against the wall, 5, so the adhesive coating, 9, on the end-flap, 6, will confront the outer surface of wall, 4, whereby the said coating may be moistened and adhered to the outer surface of said wall, 4, and thereby hold the wrapper and the article therein in a rolled condition as seen in Fig. 3 and without the necessity of cord or twine.

It is obvious that the rolling of the wrapper may be done when the article is placed in the wrapper to keep the same clean and stored in that condition before sale.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat ent is,-

A collar or cuff package comprising a transparent double walled wrapper with the article inserted between the walls thereof, said package walls having a permanently closed flap at one end, one wall of the package being shorter than the other and adof the packagethe complete package being 10 hesively secured to the inner side of the in a rolled condition.

longer wall so as to completely seal the 1n- In testimony whereof I aflix my signature closed article between the opposite ends of in presence of two Witnesses. the shorter wall, and said package and arti- CHARLES GAHN cles therein being rolled with the shorter wall on the inside and with the longer wall Witnesses:

outermost,-and the free end of said longer CHARLES B. MANN, J r.,

wall adhesively secured to the outer surface FELIX R. SULLIVAN. i

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

